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After the 16th century in Tibet, Buddhist leaders were inseparable from government administrators. The concept of samayas, vows to the guru, became a tool for suppressing people's rights and manipulating political authority. [21] Shamar Rinpoche of the Karma Kagyu Lineage saw religion and politics as working against each other in Tibet. Lamas ...
The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2002. "Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma – Book 31 – Not Doing Evils (Shoaku Makusa)", Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō. Introduction and translation by William M. Bodiford. Dharma Eye: News of Sōtō Zen Buddhism – Teachings and Practice. pp. 21–26, December 2002. "Kokan Shiren's “Zen Precept ...
Joanna Rogers Macy (born May 2, 1929) is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is the author of twelve books. [1] She was married to the late Francis Underhill Macy, the activist and Russian scholar who founded the Center for Safe Energy. [2]
Cleary became interested in Buddhism when he was a teenager; his researches into Buddhist thought began with a desire to learn during this time of his life. [1] When he began translating, he chose either untranslated works or—as in the case of Sun Tzu's The Art of War—books whose extant translations were "too limited". [1]
As an "engaged Buddhist" the Dalai Lama has an appeal straddling cultures and political systems making him one of the most recognized and respected moral voices today. [323] " Despite the complex historical, religious and political factors surrounding the selection of incarnate masters in the exiled Tibetan tradition, the Dalai Lama is open to ...
Buddhist socialism is a political ideology which advocates socialism based on the principles of Buddhism. Both Buddhism and socialism seek to provide an end to suffering by analyzing its conditions and removing its main causes through praxis. Both also seek to provide a transformation of personal consciousness (respectively, spiritual and ...
The Dalit Buddhist movement [a] is a religious as well as a socio-political movement among Dalits in India which was started by B. R. Ambedkar. He re-interpreted Buddhism and created a new school of Buddhism called Navayana. The movement has sought to be a socially and politically engaged form of Buddhism. [2] [3]
The book includes an 18 page bibliography of further reading [11] and contributes evidence that argues against an assumption that women have a subordinate role in Tantric Buddhism. [12] To write her second book, Buddhist Goddess of India (2006), Shaw translated Sanskrit texts about goddesses and took photographs of goddess festivals in Calcutta.